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Hind/winfjs : white, with a twice-angulated basal line; two ferruginous dark sijots 

 at the ends of discocellular, often united together ; a streak of close blackish atoms 

 down the middle of wing ; exterior shade formed by two dark lines with pale fuscous 

 between them, angled outwards in middle ; submarginal shade similar, but starting 

 below costa and ending above tail, while the exterior shade starts from costa and runs 

 to inner margin ; apex and inner margin with dark striae ; two black marginal lunules 

 above the tail ; the tail edged above with a fuscous streak projecting somewhat 

 inwards, with an ocellus below ; fringe of both wings white, chequered with fuscous 

 opposite the fuscous shades. 



Palpi and face deep dark red ; antennae rufous ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 white, the last with greyish segmental markings. Underside white, the forewings 

 somewhat discoloured with cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 — 32 mm. 



Three 5 j from P^ergusson Island, November and December. 



Larger than E. coiijiiciaria Wlk., with fainter markings; somewhat resembling 

 also E. cretacen Butler, from Japan. 



15. Epiplema particolor sp. nov. 

 Forewings: grey, sprinkled with fuscous atoms;, the costa dotted black and 

 ochreous ; lines ferruginous and blackish ; the first at one-third, oblique outwards 

 from costa, sharply angulated towards the discocellular, and marked by a blackish spot 

 below on the submedian fold ; second from a dark costal spot at two-thirds, obliiiue 

 outwards to middle of wing, then inwards to a brown-black s]wt on inner margin at 

 three-fourths ; an incurved ferruginous and blackish submarginal hne from below 

 apex to below middle ; fringe chequered, Light and dark grey. 



Hindvjiwjs : pale straw-colour; two dark basal lines and a costal blotch; disco- 

 cellular mark ferruginous and black, enclosing with the central chestnut streak a 

 wedge-shaped blotch of pale straw-colour with three or four brown dots on its inner 

 edge ; postmedian line sinuous, dark brown, edged externally with pearl-grey, 

 angulated in the middle ; its costal half with chestnut on either side, and another 

 lustrous line towards hiiidmargin ; inner-marginal half of wing chequered with 

 fuscous streaks and dusting ; a fine cmved black line from upper tooth to below 

 lower tooth, sharply cut at the lower tooth by a white dash ; fringe pale straw- 

 colour, mottled with darker between the teeth. In the j the ground-colour of 

 hindwings is dull suffused ochreous grey, like the forewings. 



Face and palpi velvety black ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; basal 

 segment of alDdomen blackish, the others marked with darker grey. Underside of 

 forewings dark grey ; of hindwings pale ochi'eous, towards the hiudmargin mottled, 

 and beyond the cell sufTused, with dark fuscous ; in the 5 both wings are cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



Three i S , one $ , from Fergusson Island, October to December. 



Somewhat resembles E. ochreofwiiwsa ^N'arr., from India. 



16. Epiplema quadricaudata supproximans subsp. nov. 



Differing from typical quadricaudata Wlk. only in t lie outer line of the hindwings, 

 which, instead of being curved into the anal angle, is at first nearly vertical from the 

 costa, and afterwards curves into hindmargin half-way between anal angle and the 

 lower talk 



Two S 6, one $, from Fergusson Island, November and December. 



